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Jolly Fellows
1934, Dec 09
1h 36m
Merry Fellows was the first Soviet musical comedy. Set in Odessa and Moscow in the 1930s. Shepherd Kostya Potekhin (Utyosov) is mistaken for an international concert star. He falls in love with Anyuta (Orlova) and plays the "star" for her. In a cascade of comic musical numbers he becomes the leader of a Jazz-Band and gives a hilarious show at the Odessa Music Hall. Now he is destined to perform at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
Directed by
Grigori Aleksandrov
Written by
Nikolay Erdman, Grigori Aleksandrov, Vladimir Mass
Emmanuil Geller
Зритель, нет в титрах (Music-hall audience member (uncredited))
Leonid Utyosov
Костя Потехин (Kostya Potekhin)
Lyubov Orlova
Анюта, домашняя работница (Anyuta - the Housemaid)
Yelena Tyapkina
Мачеха Анюты (Anyuta's Stepmother)
Mariya Strelkova
Елена - дитя Торгсина |Yelena - Child of the Foreign Trade Union
Arnold Arnold
Дирижер из Парагвая (Fraschini - the conductor from Paraguay)
Fyodor Kurikhin
Факельщик (Mortician)
Niki Otto
Музыкант, зачинщик драки на репетиции
Robert Erdman
Учитель музыки (German music teacher)
Igor Lopatonok
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